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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2006
Karl Georg Hampel, New York, NY (US);
William Michael Macdonald, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Viswanath Poosala, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Karl Georg Hampel, New York, NY (US);
William Michael MacDonald, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Viswanath Poosala, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
IDPA Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising at least a portion of at least one wireless network. In one aspect of the invention, mobile user devices that are located within a common geographic area are identified, and location-based service information is delivered to the identified mobile user devices over a broadcast channel shared by those mobile user devices. A response to the location-based service information maybe received from at least a given one of the mobile user devices, and at least one message maybe controllably delivered to the given one of the mobile user devices based on the response to the location-based service information.